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Twenty years

MAY 01, 1968

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034960

Gloria B. Lubkin

PHYSICS TODAY is 20 years old this month; our first issue was published in May 1948. In this birthday issue we review some of the things that have happened in 20 years of physics and 20 years Of PHYSICS TODAY.

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© 1968 American Institute of Physics
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